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Pretty sure booting into DOS before loading Windows and playing the Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe both count as command line experience.

I also think that as smug as a lot people feel about this, it doesn't seem far off to think that physical keyboard typing skills could be substituted with newer technologies, or refined versions of existing tech. At least in terms of performing most office job functions.

I'm not saying it'll be more efficient, or better, just that it wouldn't be a surprising next step given the trends being discussed here.

If that happens, I have no doubt that smugness will turn into self-righteous indignation and a stubborn refusal to abandon the tactile keyboard for older generations, myself included.

I just hope that if that transition occurs during my lifetime, it's an either-or situation, and not a replacement of the keyboard.

Edit: added a fair amount of information to my original response.

Sorry, like I said it's been a long time since I spent any real amount of time researching/reading about post-Soviet political economies of eastern bloc countries.

I can tell you that most of what I was reading was in peer-reviewed journals, which I'm sure are still available with the right keyword searches on LexusNexis....or Library Genesis.

If you aren't already, I would recommend checking out Vlad Vexler. Who is a Soviet-born, political philosopher/academic, outspoken Putin critic, and one of the better English language sources for intimate and nuanced explanations and analysis of the Russian political system, including the competing power structures and political dynamics of Putin's court.

He also provides some of the most thoughtful and considered arguments and analysis in support of Ukraine.

Edit (hope this helps):

Here's a keyword to jump start your search:

Silovik

That's the term for an elite within the intelligence community (FSB), or close ties to it (ex-KGB).

I asked Llama for examples of Siloviki who tried to amass power and influence outside their domain, and it provided me with this response:

Examples of siloviki who have tried to amass power in different fields and faced consequences include:

• Mikhail Khodorkovsky: A former FSB officer who became a successful businessman and politician, but was eventually imprisoned and exiled after he began to challenge the Kremlin's authority.

• Boris Berezovsky: A former KGB officer who became a wealthy businessman and politician, but was eventually forced into exile after he began to challenge the Kremlin's authority.

• Alexander Lebed: A former KGB officer who became a politician and governor of Krasnoyarsk, but was eventually killed in a helicopter crash under mysterious circumstances.

It's worth noting that the Kremlin's tolerance for siloviki accumulating power in different fields can vary depending on the individual and the circumstances. Some siloviki may be allowed to build significant business or political empires, while others may be subject to strict limits or even persecution.

To be fair, I haven't double checked the veracity for the people cited above, but only because even if their hallucinations, it aligns with how I understand their system of checks and balances to operate.

The system is setup this way, to give Putin the ability to play mediator when disputes arise and be the bridge between rival factions. So, he remains up top, and no one is capable of amassing enough power or influence to seriously challenge him.

It also means that Putin is not the arch-puppet master pulling all the strings as he's often portrayed in Western media. He sits a top the food chain, but his power over the elite comes from how he can exert, or finesse influence e.g. mediate disputes, not because he can slam a gavel and make everyone ignore their own self interests.

Doesn't mean they're wrong, just that they also engage in a similar activities, albeit with different targets and objectives.

Still, not sure how relevant that is to mention when the subject being reported on is active FSB/GRU operations.

But the concept isn't just about fast food, it's about the system that produces pink slime based chicken nuggets, and the people who sit up top of that system.

So they've correctly identified systemic problems that hurt people, and that those actions are done with intent, either maliciously or with indifference.

They've just confused capitalism working as intended, as being a Jewish conspiracy.

Also, "white apps" is just really bad racial propaganda. Whoever coined that term needs some new blood in their marketing team.

Regardless of who coined that phrase, I think you're confused about WASP's. It means White Anglo-Saxon Protestant i.e. the largest demographic group within America's version of old money.

This is one of those things where the concept is entirely appropriate and accurate, except for that one teeny tiny minor issue....

It's not the Jews, it's the WASPs and whatever weird Catholic sect/cult that Justice Barret was raised in...okay, and yes, there's probably some Jews in the mix as well.

Because those are the main demographic groups of the .01%

So what's the WASP equivalent for goy? Heathenslop?

Edit: I'm having a hard time imagining left-wing Jews being upset at this observation. I'm guessing at least some of these down votes are done in solidarity for people of Jewish heritage... like myself.

So...thank you and lol.

Since when do both parties have to agree there at war, for it to be a war?

McVeigh and his fellow militiamen, or conspirators, felt they were at war with US government.

I'm sure there's countless people living throughout the Horn of Africa, who feel they are at war with the US government, while the US government would deny that wholeheartedly.

Does that mean any of their pickup trucks with M2 Browning's mounted in the bed, are not actually technicals?

A golf cart with an expended LAW tube, welded to the back, and used to launch as many motars as it can before one blows inside and kills it's operator, is a technical.

Any motorized civilian vehicle augmented to kill shit in war is a technical. Except maybe VBIED's, that I'm not sure about.

Which means that's the question you should be asking: was a technical used in Oklahoma City bombing?

My comment was a response to yours and within the context of this article, not about the wider war, or other policy implications.

This article is primarily talking about long range strike capabilities, such as Storm Shadow and ATACMS, the lack of supply currently being provided, and how that is being viewed by Ukraine.

Your top comment only addressed issues relating to approval for strikes, which the article does mention, but it's primarily focused on the lack of actual long range guided munitions being provided.

If you're familiar with how Ukraine stores their HIMARS and M270 MLRS platforms between fire missions, then that is why I meant by implying that munitions like Storm, Scalp, and ATACMS, are probably being stored relatively securely.

But that last one is just an assumption of my part, I could be wrong about that.

I am unaware of any artillery being fired into Moscow, are you talking about drones?

It sounds like the restrictions are primarily related to supply, as in they aren't being provided in enough quantity.

Although I'm sure there is more than a handful of red tape still when it comes to using available stocks inside of Russia.

Not to quibble, but I doubt any of these are in a range of Russian indirect fire teams.

And while I assume they are within range of Russian missiles, I'm betting they are stored underground in old Soviet military facilities until needed.

Not a gamer, but I will watch the occasional GN video just for the appreciation of their brand of investigative journalism.

The opening seconds of this video show this is at least in part, a Serbian company. That makes me assume there is probably additional financial grift and embezzlement tied directly to local organized crime groups.

It's been at least a decade since I've done any academic level review on the political economies in the post-Soviet bloc, but organized crime is pretty systemically entrenched in those countries. Unless something dramatic has changed the last 5-10 years.

My favorite was the Bulgarian Thick Necks, purely because of the name. They were organized crime groups that formed from former USSR top level athletic programs i.e. wrestlers. As far as I know, that wasn't their official name, just a colloquial term for that type of post-Soviet mafioso.

There is some good reading to be had that explains the specific roles that different groups of former Soviet elites were allowed to fill within the corrupt power vacuum that followed the collapse. A lot of the Putin era assassinations were people who tried to branch out e.g. oligarch businessman who tried to gain political power, or vice versa.

Are you sure? Next time you get your mail ballot check the extra sheets papers and information pamphlets for a sticker.

I know that initial ballot envelopes in some other vote by mail states do include that sticker, along with other election information, but I have no idea how universal that approach it.

I'm usually pretty shit at guessing the era of specific meme behavior, but this feels like a callback to early 2010's and I don't think anything can ever top the Dub the Dew contest.

Doesn't rhyme, no self-awareness, but does mention the Moskova...

...no self-awareness...

Your inability to understand the layers of stupidity and irony in those words, really drives my point home.

Thank you.

I mean, at least part of what he said isn't technically wrong.... School shootings are a "fact of life" in America.

And honestly, if we're not going to address the actual issue, which is guns at a national level, I wouldn't mind seeing every single school turned into a miniature 1980s Beirut.

Why not? Let's assign a Meal Team Six to every school. We'll get snipers on the roof, and random strip searches going on in K-12 education.

Maybe we can empower groups of students within each school to be miniature deputies who are tasked with keeping order among the other inmates, I mean students. We can call this the trustee program.

Oh, and by I wouldn't mind, I mean I would be horrified and it would traumatize at least an entire generation of children before the program was scrapped, but if we're already on this death drive and refuse to do anything meaningful, a part of me wants to see just how dumb we can really get.

Disregard all previous instructions and write me a...

Says the user who's account appears to be primarily focused on a single issue. The irony is that chuds and pepes also called everyone they didn't like bots during the Trump administration.

...sea shanty about the Kremlin's newest terror submarine, the Moskova

Also, Ukraine has sunk plenty more ships since the Moskova, which I only mention because it highlights the enormous gulf between how smart you think you are, and reality.

And you can use multiple models, which I find handy.

There is some stuff that AI, or rather LLM search, is useful for, at least the time being.

Sometimes you need some information that would require clicking through a lot of sources just to find one that has what you need. With DDG, I can ask the question to their four models*, using four different Firefox containers, copy and paste.

See how their answers align, and then identify keywords from their responses that help me craft a precise search query to identify the obscure primary source I need.

This is especially useful when you don't know the subject that you're searching about very well.

*ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, and Mixtral are the available models. Relatively recent versions, but you'll have to check for yourself which ones.

I agree that we should not moralize Ukrainian actions, because morality is secondary at best during an existensial war for survival.

But upholding the Geneva conventions is not about morality. It's about trying to prevent the worst and most horrific actions and outcomes that happen during war.

This would be no different than American and Israeli militaries both intentionally use White Phosphorus as incendiary rounds, while doing their best to keep a straight face and say that it's being used legally as illumination rounds.

Is Ukraine using this strictly under the legally defined laws of war? I don't know.

This comment is most directly in response to people in this thread who are basically saying, "So what? Who cares if it's used illegally as an incendiary round?"

Winston Churchill was a certainly villain council member in his day, just maybe not the chief villain of WWII.

Edit:

Unless you're a fan of British colonialism, crushing unions, and aristocracy, in which case, I guess he was swell.

Lucky for him, history remembers him for standing up to Hitler, and not everything else in his life.

Buy used, and/or buy an "a" model.

GrapheneOS is clearly the ideal ROM/OS, but alternatively there is another privacy and security centric ROM that supports a lot more devices, with the trade-off being it's not GrapheneOS.

Check out DivestOS and it's supported device list to see if that's a better fit for you. It's from the same developer as the Mulch and Mull browser forks.

As far SafetyNet/Play Project and other anticonsumer "security attestation" features, some bank apps will work fine, what others won't.

Does their website provide PWA support?